Underwear.



No. 806,286. PATENTED DEC. 5, 1905.

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UNDERWEAR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 20. 1905.

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Gl-IARLES A. PowELL, OF WHITESBORO, NEW YORK.

' UNDERWEAR. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Application filed January 20,1905. Serial No. 241,917.

ticle of underwear; and I declare that the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description thereof suflicient to enable one skilled in the art to make and use the same,

reference being'had to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters refer to like parts throughout.

I My invention is applicable to a union suit or to a pair of ants and is illustrated in the accompanying rawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view indicating by dotted lines the outline of parts of the rear. Fig. 2 is a view showing my invention applied to one leg of a pair of pants, and Fig. 3 is a plan view'of the block or ply of cloth which is used in the application of my-invention to a garment.

The purpose of my invention is to provide necessary fullness in the abdominal portion of the garment from about the waist portion downward, permitting the relatively narrow pieces of substantially uniform width which comprise the blank leg portions of a garment to be extended farther up substantially to the waist-line on the front and back of the garment. This is accomplished by the insertion of a certain part, a feature of which is a gore portion, which is applied to the front of the garment and tapers upwardly and which also has a portion to be attached into the leg of the garment and a'further portion extended rearwardly and upwardly to about the waist-line.

In the drawings, A represents the body portion of a garment having the leg portions The garment is generally cut out of a single piece, having inner seams in the legs, which are thus formed of substantially a uniform width. To provide the necessary room at the thighs, I stitch in the blank or ply shown. C represents this ply. It has a, substantially straight edge ca, which extends from front to rear substantially on the crotch-line. It also has an edge of), which meets the edge ea in a point, which point of the flap or blank is attached to the front opining of the garment at about the waist- The blank is attached to the adjacent edge of the garment throughout the edgecb, which has a slight curvature to produce the desired form and efiect, this line of stitching extending down along the front edge of the inner leg-seam to a point where the edge 01) intersects the edge 0e, when the stitching is continued up the rear edge of the inner leg-seam and the vertical opening of the garment along line 00 to a point substantially near the waistline in the rear, where it meets the transverse edge cd, by which it is secured to the back of the garment.

dotted lines in Fig. 1.

From Fig. 2 ,which illustrates a pair of pants, it will be seenthat the device is equally applicable to a single garment as to a union suit. The two blanks or plies when attached to the garment may be secured by buttons at the front edge, the overlapping of the rearward portion obviating the necessity of any fasten- 'ing at that part, or a fastening may be provided. It is seen, therefore, that I have pro- Patented Dec. 5, 1905. I

The edges cd of the two flaps may or may not be overlapped, as shown in this instance and as indicated byvided with an undergarment a part to be attached thereto, of such particular dimensions and shape as maybe required, which will provide fullness in the abdominal portion without the overlapping of a number of plies and which at the same time provides sufficient rear closure without the need of any fastening thereat, but still providing ample fullness and coverin without unnecessary material and which a ows the narrow leg portion to be extended farther toward the waist-line than heretofore.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1 1. undergarment having leg portions, and two flaps inserted and secured in said leg portions, respectively, and providing the fullness in the thigh portions thereof, each flap being secured throughout one longitudinal edge to its respective leg portion, and extending from about the waist-line at the rear downwardly and then up at the front about to the waist-line at the front, said longitudinal'edge tapering from the ends toward the center to form a projection extending downwardly in the leg portion, substantially as described and shown. 7

2., An undergarment having leg portions, and two flaps inserted and secured in said leg portions, respectively, and providing fullness in the thigh portions thereof, each flap being secured throu hout one lon itudinal edge to its respective fig portion an extending from about the Waist-line at the rear downwardly and then up at the front about to the waistline at the front, said longitudinal edge being inclined forming an intermediate projec tion extending downwardly in the leg portion, the portions of said. flaps at the front meeting about alon the vertical crotch-line without substantia overlap, said vertical meeting edges provided with means for de tachably uniting the same, substantially as described.

3. An undergarment having leg portions, and two flaps inserted and secured in said leg portions, the front ends of said flaps being secured to the front part of the garment CHARLES A. POWELL.

Witnesses:

W. D. STONE, E. T. DE GIoReI. 

